434 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



Var. bugnioni. Upper and under side completely black, except for 

 a very narrow marginal testaceous band in the anterior part of the 

 elytra. It is this variety which Schoch described under the name of 

 A. bugnioni. 



Length 15-1 8 J- mm. ; width 9-10 mm. 



Hab. (Type.) Natal (Durban, Maritzburg, Tugela Eiver) ; Trans- 

 vaal (no exact locality). 



(Var.) Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez, Eikatla). 



Gen. PACHNODA, Burm., 

 Handb. d. EntomoL, iii., 1842, p. 511. 



Dischista, Burm., loc. cit., p. 512. 



Gonostethus, Schoch., Schw., Entom. Gess., ix., 1894, p. 186. 



Phoxomeloides , Schoch., Schw., Ent. Ges., 1898, p. 109. 



Mentum sub-parallel, more or less deeply emarginate in front, 

 outer face concave at the base and also near the apex ; maxillae 

 robust, upper lobe with a slightly incurved tooth occasionally slightly 

 bifid, inner lobe sharp at tip, and oftener than not slightly toothed ; 

 last joint of both palps sub-cylindrical ; clypeus slightly attenuate in 

 front, more or less deeply emarginate there, head simple ; eyes large 

 and with a short canthus ; antennal club shorter than the whole 

 pedicel ; prothorax sub-trapezoidal, anterior margin with a small 

 median protuberance, sometimes sub-conical, little convex ; scutellum 

 triangular, longer than broad, sub-acuminate at apex ; elytra a little 

 attenuate behind or sub-parallel, plane, obsoletely costulate in the 

 dorsal part, or with the costule distinct in the posterior part only, 

 plane, seldom distinctly seriate punctate, covering the greatest part 

 if not the whole, of the propygidium, and not aculeate at the suture; 

 pygidium more than twice as broad as long, sub-vertical ; meta- 

 sternum broad, grooved, mesosternal process projecting beyond the 

 coxae, more or less orbicular and horizontal, or compressed laterally 

 and deflexed ; legs somewhat robust ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate 

 outwardly and with an upper, slight sinuation in the male ; sharply 

 tri-dentate in the female ; tarsal joints sub- cylindrical on the upper 

 side. 



The genus, as now restricted, is found in Africa, Nubia, and 

 Arabia. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Elytra with the apical part of the suture not acuminate. 

 B 2 . Mesosternal process flat, more or less rounded in front. 

 C 2 . Abdominal segments with white bands. 



